Re: Keyspan USB serial adapter on Debian

> > From what I gather there were licensing objections in Debian leaving it to
> > the user to roll their own.
> > I'm trying to figure out if Keyspan support can just be built as a loadable
> > kernel module for Debian.
> > or is it more involved than that?
> 
> Try asking the Debian developers, this is not an upstream, kernel.org
> issue, it is only due to Debian being very stubborn with regards to
> their intrepretation of how firmware blobs work within the kernel and
> the license of the kernel package.
> 
> Keyspan devices work very well with Linux on all other distros, so
> perhaps you might just want to switch distros :)
> 
> good luck,
> 
> greg k-h

gregkh the keyspan firmware restricts usage to boxes with keyspan,
so yes it is peculiar.
i'm in conversation with keyspan to fix that fact.

i'd be very happy to be able to renable it.

-- 
maks

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